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Diane Fornbacher

@drf84020.bsky.social
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Reluctant Cannabis & Drug Policy Machete Trailblazer & Artist

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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Much news with good reason for the perps but let us acknowledge one of the first dominoes was pushed down by the bravery of this woman. Thank you, Virginia, on behalf of all SA victims. May you rest in peace.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Carl Gustav Jung @jungquotes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“The spirit of the depths opened my eyes and I caught a glimpse of the inner things, the world of my soul, the many-formed and changing." -Carl Jung
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org
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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 18/04/2025
Corporate lobbying is shaping the marijuana market, putting profit over health & safety. When profits drive policy, it leads to misleading marketing & deceptive labels—putting communities at risk. We must prioritize health, equity, & sustainable models. drugpolicy.org/issue/legali...
Photo from Drug Policy Alliance of a protest sign reading "The facts support legalization" with a caption "Marijuana legalization must prioritize people's wellbeing NOT company profits."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2025
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 08/04/2025
It’s clear: Trump and Musk want to make it harder and harder for the elderly and disabled to utilize Social Security. They don’t care how much pain they cause. Their ultimate goal is to make Social Security dysfunctional, to privatize it and to let Wall Street take it over.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/04/2025
Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death. Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/03/2025
A recently passed House GOP budget resolution could lead to cuts to SNAP benefits and Medicaid, which many residents in Speaker Johnson’s Louisiana district rely on. nbcnews.to/41MpEgA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Trump gutting the Dept. of Education will impact every child. But states that voted for Trump rely more heavily on Dept. of Education funds than those that didn't. Education funding shouldn't be a red vs. blue issue. It should be about all of us supporting the common good.
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you are afraid to meet with your constituents, you are a COWARD. If you see your representatives out in public who have denied meeting with constituents in public, that's exactly what you should shout at them. 
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I #standwithukraine 🇺🇦⭐️🥇
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claireleow.bsky.social @claireleow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Voting has consequences. By Georgia Lea Smith, who writes in farming issues. farmergeorgiewrites.substack.com/p/the-devast...
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The Devastating Impact of Trump 2.0 on U.S. Farmers
The fallout begins...
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Kaliko Castille @wizkaliko.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just finished my second audio book of the year (started last year) on Audible (tax Bezos). For anyone looking for light at the end of the tunnel in the next four years, read this book by Neil Howe.
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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 15/11/2024
Give us a follow if you believe drug policy should be grounded in evidence, health, equity, and human rights.
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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 18/02/2025
As a police officer, Diane saw that “no matter how much we ramped up enforcement efforts, drugs still entered communities and people still died from overdose." To save lives, we need real solutions: expanding health services and increasing access to medications that reduce overdose death risk.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/02/2025
While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent. SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I must get over the every day shock that too many fold so easily for fascist ogligarch demagogues until it "directly affects" their interests. Saw it in cannabis, seeing it now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025
Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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27 religious groups sue Trump administration to protect houses of worship from immigration arrests
The lawsuit from more than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups contends that the new policy is spreading fear of raids, thus lowering attendance at worship services.
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
USA, you break my heart every day. It is a good thing I have needle and thread.
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Rise
Flobots · Fight With Tools · Song · 2008
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
UnitedHealth has overcharged some cancer patients for medicine by over 1,000%. An FTC report finds that OptumRx, United Health's pharmacy benefit manager, has made billions by charging patients a huge markup for life-saving drugs. www.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Denver Area Warming Centers for the Arctic Blast sheltering: www.denverpost.com/2025/01/15/d...
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Here’s where to find shelter during metro Denver’s arctic cold snap
Four overflow cold weather shelters are open across Denver and the city will keep them open through at least 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to Denver’s Department of Housing Stability.
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Syracuse Cultural Workers @syrculturalworkers.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Reading enriches our lives in so many ways. We hope you'll find some books here that will enhance your winter, and others which will make welcome gifts for people in your life. syracuseculturalworkers.com/collections/... #books #reading #learning #readbannedbooks
Images of 3 books: Blessings for Times Like These by Jack Manno
 illustrations: Karen Kerney, A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism, editors: Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky and Sarah Sills, and To Become a Human Being: The Message of Tadodaho Chief  Leon Shenandoah as told to Steve Wall
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Elon is the skidmark of apartheid past.
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Briefly consulted for "Dr." Oz for terminally ill medical cannabis patients. He treated them badly, his graphics were incorrect, and he encouraged anti-reformers to scream at us pro-cannabis activists. #drwrong
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Worst band ever: Morning Joe & The Bootlickers (Kid Rock Covers)
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 17/11/2024
Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. Pretty simple.
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Sofia Wren @sofiawren.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"There are more of us than them. More of us who want a world of peaceful co-existence than ash. More of us who know in our bones that justice and liberation and peace run together.
Millions of us. And we are co-creating the world with every choice, every breath, every action...."
- Valarie Kaur
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yeah, like even 10 years ago! Obviously applies today, too. Thanks for hanging in so long @johnnygreen.bsky.social
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Do not lick the boots of your oppressors.
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Sher Simcisko @shersimcisko.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Much bigger!
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Diane Fornbacher @drf84020.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Cherry picking freedoms is not freedom, it's a selective superiority complex.
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RICH @bearycarey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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Sofia Wren @sofiawren.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey there’s some good news
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Diane Goldstein @dianemgoldstein.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
For my new followers here is my drug reform origin story 👉🏻 bit.ly/48T3s6J and why I work hard everyday to change policy, law and culture in policing to save the lives of people who use drugs & uphold our civil liberties #nomoredrugwar #harmreductionsaveslives
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Like Many Drug Policy Reformers, I’m Driven by Personal Tragedy
I have a million stories about my older brother, Billy, that exemplify the harms of the United States criminal justice ...
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